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005 20220131000847.0
008 050418s1989 enk 001 0 eng d
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100 1 $aWest, Cornel.
245 14 $aThe American evasion of philosophy :$ba genealogy of pragmatism /$cCornel West.
260 $aBasingstoke :$bMacmillan,$c1989.
300 $axi, 279 pages ;$c24 cm.
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490 1 $aLanguage, discourse, society
500 $aIncludes index.
505 0 $a1. The Emersonian prehistory of American pragmatism. Emerson on power (and tradition) ; Emerson on provocation (and the market) ; Emerson on personality (and race) ; Emerson as organic intellectual -- 2. The historic emergence of American pragmatism. Peirce on scientific method, community, and Christian love ; James on individuality, reconciliation, and heroic energies -- 3. The coming-of-age of American pragmatism: John Dewey. Dewey on historical consciousness, critical intelligence, and creative democracy -- 4. The dilemma of the mid-century pragmatic intellectual. Sidney Hook: the Deweyan political intellectual ; C. Wright Mills: the neo-Deweyan radical social critic ; W.E.B. Du Bois: the Jamesian organic intellectual ; Reinhold Niebuhr: the Jamesian cultural critic ; Lionel Trilling: the pragmatist as Arnoldian literary critic ; The decline and resurgence of American pragmatism: W.V. Quine and Richard Rorty -- 5. Prophetic pragmatism: cultural criticism and political engagement. Roberto Unger and Third-Wave Left romanticism ; The challenge of Michel Foucault ; Tragedy, tradition, and political praxis ; Prophetic pragmatism and postmodernity.
650 0 $aPhilosophy, American.
650 7 $aPhilosophy, American.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01060855
650 07 $aPragmatisches Denken.$2swd
650 07 $aPragmatismus.$2swd
651 7 $aUSA.$2swd
653 $aAmerican philosophy
830 0 $aLanguage, discourse, society.
830 0 $aLanguage, discourse, society series.
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